The 4th

Our day was spent painting the homeschool room. For the past 3 years it has been a dirty pale blue, but now it is a lovely wheat color, I wish I had done it years ago. I'm sitting in the library looking into it and hoping all the little touch ups will help our house sell quicker in this stale market.

Papa came over about 4:30 to help Nate figure out some stuff, while I headed to the grocery store to find something to cook. Bubba burgers are actually really good for frozen burgers, and they make one that has less fat than some of there other flavors. We had some excellent corn on the cob, then we went to see the Ratatouille movie, it was pretty cute, I liked it because of all the cooking stuff and food, even if it was cartoon food. We then came home at set off some bottle rockets in our front yard.

Overdose

I think I accidentally overdosed today. You see I've been gaining weight at an alarming rate,(at least to me) and when the pants that were snug 2 months ago wouldn't even come close to zipping yesterday for church, I decided to seriously get down to business. I woke up this morning and had a V-8 and then rushed off to swim practice, when I got home I took one Zantrax? or something like that. I have never ever taken a diet pill, because I have never been on a diet, but I thought this would be a nice way to jumpstart my diet. Well fire and brimestone rained down on me just 30 minutes after I took it. I started feeling like I would have to go to the bathroom, which I had already done that morning. Then I started feeling dizzy and panicky and restless. At this point I started pleading with God for my life, and then I get the bright idea that it would be good to throw up any remaining pill in my stomach. So I head to the boys bathroom and lean over the toilet, where I am sure to get a good wiff of the pee smell that is in constant supply, I soon start gagging and get the desired results. I am still feeling horrible and shaking, so I call my friend Maura to tell her I've overdosed on one diet pill. She tells me I'm buzzing and not to ever do speed, (OK), to which I'm swearing that I will never take a diet pill again. She tells me to drink lots of water, take some vitamin B and eat an egg, which I do. Just then another friend pops over, and she finds me to pacing and holding my heart, I hand her the bottle of pills and say that she can have them. I will never use them again. She assures me that my reaction is somewhat typical and I will get used to them. I never want to get used to that feeling, so I am going to have to lose this poundage the old fashioned way, unless someone knows of some other kind of magic pill that will dissolve fat. (HA!) BTW if you think I am embellishing one ounce of this story, you are mistaken, I have been known to do that on certain occasions, but this is word for word and step by step what happened. And the puking part was super easy for me, I can puke watching myself brush my teeth, or for that matter, watching my kids brush and spit in the same sink I'm using. Sometimes I wonder about all the drama that surrounds just the everyday stuff, is it ME?

This and That

Well VBS is over and so are our dates for awhile. We will be busy getting this house ready to sell and all the other stuff that goes along with moving. I am getting excited about our new house and I can't believe we will be closing in less than 2 weeks. I also am excited because every time you move it feels like a chance to start over in a fresh place. I am already imagining family breakfasts that I cooked from scratch, eating dinner all together at the same table, (we have never had a table that seated all of us at once, so Nate and I ate all meals on the sofa, while the kids ate at the table. It's in the same room as them.) I am so looking forward to the added space, so that everything can be stored neatly. Yea!! The house has a big front porch so I am looking forward to hanging plants on it, and drinking tea while reading a good book. The best thing however will be sending the kids out to wander the land and play in the creek, they all love catching crayfish, water snakes, frogs, and salamanders. I also will not have to worry about them getting run over in the street, where we are now the cars go by at about 60mph or more. yikes!

Nate is off today riding his motorcycle with his buddies. This always makes me nervous because he pushes himself to ride pretty fast through the mountain curves. When I'm on back he takes it easy, it's hard to scrape your pegs when you got a passenger. He is an excellent rider, so his risks are less than some. He use to race superbikes before we got married, but somehow that didn't bother me, probably because we didn't have kids, and I didn't love him as much as I do now. So I think I will go make myself busy until he comes home.